A joint police and B.D.F. operation in the Corozal District led to the discovery of two marijuana fields in Consejo Village. At the first location, two thousand five hundred marijuana plants, between five and six feet in height, were found near a shed used to house processed marijuana. Under the shed, the patrol discovered crocus […]
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in Belize City, police were able to remove drugs, firearms, and ammunition from the streets. The search of a residence on Hemsley Alley led to the discovery of a Sig Sauer pistol and a handgun along with three magazines. They also found fifty live rounds of ammunition and a box containing roughly […]
While those drugs weren’t linked to any individual, two cops Dion Bellini and Joel Cantun were both busted with weed in separate incidents in the north in less than a month. Cantun was caught with twenty-eight pounds of weed last Thursday, while Bellini was picked up with forty pounds in the last week of December. […]
With so many unemployed, one of the growing concerns is that it will lead to an increase in crime. In an interview today with the Minister of Home Affairs, Kareem Musa, we asked him that very question. Musa quickly noted that the new administration assumed office with sixty-thousand people already out of work for more […]
2020 saw a major reduction in crime across the country. The COVID-19 regulations played a major role in crime reduction; the Police Commissioner Chester Williams disagrees. He says that the reduction of crime for 2020 is due to the hard work of police officers. Hipolito Novelo takes a closer look at the numbers. Hipolito Novelo […]
Former Minister of Works Rene Montero has been accused of engaging in shady land deals, among other allegations of misuse of resources. Since late last year, former chairman of Buena Vista Village Eddie de la Rosa, who was one of Montero’s closest operatives, alleged that Montero was engaged in these activities while he was a […]
An extreme case of domestic violence was reported last week, a woman savagely beaten reportedly by her husband. The report has enraged the Belizean public and prompted the Ministry of Human Development on January fifteenth to issue a statement on the incident. The episode allegedly perpetrated by Joel Bardalez was condemned by the government, and […]
Police are still trying to put the pieces together to identify the decomposing skeletal remains of an unidentified man found last Saturday on the Macal Riverbank. Police say that they have no active missing person’s report that matches the remains. They now hope that a distinguishing tattoo lifted by the forensics team will help to […]
Two former employees of the Ministry of Labour, Local Government and Rural Transformation were slapped with fifteen charges of theft for reportedly misappropriating more than thirty-five thousand dollars from government funds. Clerks Emany Sanchez and Steve Murray Junior were both arrested and charged over the weekend. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the investigation continues into […]
There are two murders to report tonight. The first occurred on Sunday afternoon on the south side of Belize City. Malique Green has had several run-ins with the law, and just before two, as he headed to a shop, he was executed – one shot to the head. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane […]
A family dispute ended with fatal consequences for a family in San Martin Belmopan on Sunday. Walter Axcel Gonzalez was at home when his step-father arrived and got into an argument with his mother. Gonzalez intervened, and the two men, who were reportedly under the influence, got into a physical fight. The family says the […]
Today, police shared the official details of what the investigation has uncovered about this fatal stabbing. At the time of this interview with ACP Joseph Myvett, Walter Gonzalez was still alive. As we told you just now, he died later this evening from the injuries he sustained. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation […]
Police Officer Rosendo Joel Cantun was busted with thirteen kilos of weed last Thursday. Police say that cops were conducting vehicle checks at the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk just before midday when they stopped Cantun. The officers searched his vehicle and that is when they found a black plastic bag with twenty-four parcels […]
Police also took a weapon and some more drugs off the streets of Orange Walk. This time, the discovery was made by the Mobile Interdiction Team. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “The mobile interdiction team which operates along the border was in Orange Walk yesterday sometime around eleven-thirty a.m., where they […]
Last Wednesday, police carried out a search at the home of a well-known drug operative in the north. There, cops and the K9 unit sniffed out four packets of cocaine that weighed zero point two six ounces. ACP Myvett provided the details. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police executed a search […]
The tragic story of baby Leroy Juan Choc’s death is one that is fitting for any parent’s worst nightmare. The two-year-old boy was found in a latrine in San Miguel Village in Toledo on Sunday. According to baby Leroy’s grandmother, the family was distracted by an animal inside their home and soon realized the toddler […]
On Monday, just before the nightly curfew, Santa Elena resident Gabino Garnett Junior was leaving his girlfriend’s house in Esperanza Village when he met his death. Garnett Junior, a father of four, was mercilessly gunned down. He was rushed to the hospital, but he didn’t survive the attack. News Five went west to find out […]
Ladyville police busted a taxi driver on Saturday night carrying a significant quantity of marijuana hidden inside a gas tank. The driver, Jose Maldonado, was not only operating with curfew hours, but he was also carrying a female passenger, Reina Gongora. Both are residents of Corozal District. Police say the shipment of drugs was destined […]
A feud between rival gangs in Ebony Street’s area has left William Archillo recovering from gunshot wounds he received on Friday night. Archillo was rushed to the K.H.M.H., where investigators would later catch up with him while receiving treatment. He told them that while standing on the street, a vehicle appeared on the scene, an […]
Tonight, one more prison escapee is in police custody after he broke out from the Belize Central Prison three months ago. Jaroud Lamb was convicted for the June 2013 murder that happened during a robbery at La Choza Bar in Las Flores, Belmopan. Lamb was among the twenty-eight prisoners who broke out of the prison […]
The decomposed, skeletal remains of an unidentified man washed up on the Macal River bank in Cayo. It was discovered on Saturday morning in the vicinity of Black Rock Road. Police say that the individual had been dead for a while, and they believe that it is not the body of Miguel Caceros, who has […]
A criminal investigation is underway at the Corozal Polyclinic where an employee is accused of embezzling almost sixty-five thousand dollars over a seventeen-month period. Adan Orozco, an assistant administrator at the healthcare facility, was reportedly double-dipping when he paid himself twice the sum of his monthly salary. If he thought that no one would discover […]
But what should have been a happy day for the teachers and staff at Saint Luke’s Methodist School was shattered. When they arrived at school this morning, they discovered a break-in and many valuables stolen, including laptops, instruments, and a sound system. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting A new term for […]
A pair of stolen vehicles, one found with a stash of marijuana and two high-powered assault rifles, remains in police custody in Belmopan after being recovered from the Corozal District on Friday evening. One of the vehicles was reported stolen in Mexico. It is not clear whether the car’s illegal contents were stolen along with […]
Beleaguered former Lands Commissioner Wilbert Vallejos and his family in Patchakan, Corozal District were the subject of an intelligence-led operation on January fourth where their residence was searched by personnel from the Mobile Interdiction Team. The Belize Police Department had received actionable information, which led to the officers raiding the property. The operation yielded a […]
